Naomi Adam
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Biography
I work as a Teaching Associate in Applied Linguistics in the 糖心原创's School of English, specialising in Stylistics (Literary Linguistics).
My research interests span contemporary fiction, cognitive poetics, fictional ontologies and fictolinguistics.
Having acted as Graduate Impact Assistant on the 'COVID-19 CARE: Culture and the Arts, from Restriction to Enhancement: Protecting Mental Health in the Liverpool City Region' project, I am also interested in the real-world, cognitive benefits of fictional prose.
Expertise Summary
My work has appeared in Language and Literature, the Journal of Literary Semantics and the Conversation, among other publications.
Teaching Summary
I teach on a range of in-person, digital and hybrid modules spanning the subjects of linguistics and literature. Currently, these include: 糖心原创ing Language (ENGL1002); Essentials of English… read more
Research Summary
Passionate about melding the study of language with the study of literature in all its forms, I have a particular interest in contemporary, award-winning fiction, fictolinguistics, and the… read more
Recent Publications
NAOMI ADAM, 2024. '[I]gnorant bushbaby bullshit'?: The racialised metaperspective as mind style in Marlon James' (2014) A Brief History of Seven Killings English Text Construction. (In Press.)
NAOMI ADAM, 2023. Language and Literature. 32(1), 163-166
NAOMI ADAM, 2023. Journal of Literary Semantics. 52(1), 99-102
NAOMI ADAM, 2023. Qeios. 1-3
I am currently acting as the Interim Newsletter Editor of Parlance, the biannual publication of the Poetics and Linguistics Association. Further details and past issues can be found at: .
I am also incumbent Production Manager for the Journal of Languages, Texts and Society (LTS), Volume 7. Discover more at: .
I teach on a range of in-person, digital and hybrid modules spanning the subjects of linguistics and literature. Currently, these include: 糖心原创ing Language (ENGL1002); Essentials of English (ENGL1013); Literary Linguistics (ENGL2017); Literary Linguistics [Distance Learning] (ENGL4247).
I have previous experience teaching on the modules 'Introduction to Stylistics (ENGL105)', 'Attitudes to English (ENGL106)' and 'Language and Literature (ENGL383)' in the Department of English at the University of Liverpool.
Current Research
Passionate about melding the study of language with the study of literature in all its forms, I have a particular interest in contemporary, award-winning fiction, fictolinguistics, and the worlds-based theories of cognitive poetics.
I am currently compiling the 'Stylistics' chapter of the Year's Work in English Studies (YWES) alongside Fransina Stradling (University of Huddersfield).
Past Research
My AHRC-funded doctoral thesis was entitled: '[C]onstantly supposing': A text-possible approach to Hypothesis and the Metaperspective in [Man] Booker Prize-winning novels 2000-2020. This research suggested the efficacy of combining the heretofore discrete application of Text World Theory and possible worlds theory in the service of textual analysis. Alongside this, the thesis introduced the concept of the metaperspective - my view of the other's view of me - to the study of the language of literature. A monograph based upon this research is currently under review with Bloomsbury (Advances in Stylistics series).
NAOMI ADAM, 2024. '[I]gnorant bushbaby bullshit'?: The racialised metaperspective as mind style in Marlon James' (2014) A Brief History of Seven Killings English Text Construction. (In Press.)
NAOMI ADAM, 2023. Language and Literature. 32(1), 163-166
NAOMI ADAM, 2023. Journal of Literary Semantics. 52(1), 99-102
NAOMI ADAM, 2023. Qeios. 1-3
NAOMI ADAM, PATRICK BRENNAN, VANESSA MARR, CHRISTOPHER PITTARD, EMILY WEST and TORY YOUNG, 2023. The Conversation. Available at: <http://theconversation.com/six-must-read-summer-fiction-books-reviewed-by-our-experts-207690>
NAOMI ADAM, 2023. COVID-19 CARE: Culture and the Arts, from Restriction to Enhancement: Protecting Mental Health in the Liverpool City Region: One Year Interim Impact Report
NAOMI ADAM and FRANSINA STRADLING, 2023. Stylistics. In: The Year's Work in English Studies 103. (In Press.)
NAOMI ADAM, 2023. Screentest: West Side Story Babel: The Language Magazine. 28-30
NAOMI ADAM, 2023. Available at: <http://news.liverpool.ac.uk/2023/04/11/becoming-expert-metaperspectives-in-language-and-literature>
NAOMI ADAM, 2022. The Conversation. Available at: <https://theconversation.com/how-to-win-the-booker-prize-is-there-a-formula-for-the-finest-in-fiction-191528>
NAOMI ADAM, 2022. Stealskin & 'Stealskin': A Stylistic Analysis Exclamat!on: An Interdisciplinary Journal. 6, 98-108
NAOMI ADAM, 2021. Language and Literature. 30(2), 174-199
NAOMI ADAM, 2021. '[P]eople will wonder why this black woman': Double Consciousness, Controlling Images and Intradiegetic Recentering in Marlon James' (2014) A Brief History of Seven Killings In: Poetics and Linguistics Association (PALA) Conference Proceedings 2021.
NAOMI ADAM, 2021. Available at: <https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/english/our-events/wowfest2021/douglas-stuart>
NAOMI ADAM, 2021. Available at: <https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/english/our-events/wowfest2021/anne-enright>
NAOMI ADAM, 2020. '[P]laying ghetto': Style Shifting to Jamaican Creole in Marlon James' A Brief History of Seven Killings The English Languages: History, Diaspora, Culture. 6(1), 26-42
NAOMI ADAM, 2020. 'To be or not to be': Possible Worlds, Hypothetical Focalisation, and the Blurring of Boundaries between Reality and Fantasy in Ian McEwan's Nutshell Exclamat!on: An Interdisciplinary Journal. 4, 48-64